Trade and Promote (Agent Setup)

Setup of a Hermes agent for a long-standing client — stock trading via Alpaca and Instagram promotion, controlled through Telegram. In progress since July 10, 2026.

Implementation: • VPS20 at Contabo: 6 CPU cores, 12 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe SSD • Hermes Agent • Vibe-Trading (HKUDS, University of Hong Kong) • Vectorize Hindsight (memory and learning) • Web search • Intelligence via the Ollama cloud, model kimi-k2.7-code (image-capable) • Account at Alpaca — API for stocks, crypto etc. • Instagram Graph API • Telegram integration

Running costs (approx.): • VPS: 10 EUR/month • Ollama cloud: 20 EUR/month